In context

Articles by Jasmine Porter

Each entry stays tied to the chat, joke, or scene where the wording showed up.

Irony in Internet Slang

I have moderated enough pop culture and gaming communities to learn one reliable truth: online, words are rarely the problem. Context is. And nothing proves that faster than internet irony, where the most common words get repurposed to mean the exact opposite of what they say. This is how we ended...

How to Read TikTok Slang With Context Clues

I have moderated enough chaotic comment sections to know this: most TikTok slang is not hard because the word is “new.” It is hard because TikTok is a video-first language. People are speaking with their face, the sound, the edit, the pause, the caption placement, and the comments all at once. So...

Dial-Up Era ASCII Art: Usenet Trivia on Pre-Emoji Context

I learned to read early internet conversations the same way you learn to read a friend’s group chat: not just for the words, but for the vibe. The funny part is that in the dial-up era, people were already doing “tone indicators” long before anyone called them that. They just did it with...

About Jasmine Porter

Hi, I’m Jasmine Porter, and welcome to Internet Slang. If you’ve ever read a comment like “ate,” “delulu,” or “it’s giving” and felt your brain gently power down, you’re in the right place. Internet language moves fast, and it’s rarely the word itself that causes confusion. It’s the context, the...